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Public Health in Developing Countries – (M.Sc.)
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases| Application Deadline: | No official deadline for application - Registration in September - students are to allow 6-8 weeks for processing. | ||
| Annual Tuition Fee: | ≈ € 6,029 - ≈ € 18,771 (non-EEA) | ||
| Location: | London / United Kingdom / View location on map ▾ Hide location on map ▴ | ||
| Duration: | 12 months | Start Date: | September |
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| Languages: | English | ||
Location of London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
This course aims to equip students with skills needed to appreciate and analyse public health problems in developing countries, and to design and evaluate actions to improve public health. The course considers issues of global health, development and the provision of health services from a multidisciplinary perspective.
All PHDC students have substantial experience of planning or implementation of public health programmes, of teaching or research, in developing countries.
Graduates from this course work in global health, health service management, in health programmes in developing countries, in international and national NGOs, and in research. In addition to MSc Public Health in Developing Countries, other MSc courses at LSHTM may be relevant and applicants should review the relevant pages of this website: 1) MSc Public Health - for those with an interest in public health in mainly high and middle income countries; 2) MSc Control of Infectious Diseases - for those with a particular interest in infectious disease control; and 3) MSc Epidemiology - for those with a special interest in epidemiology.
Objectives
By the end of the course students should be able to:
* demonstrate knowledge and understanding of theory and practice in the core public health disciplines (epidemiology, statistics, social sciences, health policy and health economics;
* demonstrate specialised knowledge and skills in other areas relevant to public health from a wide range of options (e.g., primary health care, medical anthropology, epidemiology and control of malaria, and population studies);
* apply these skills to identify and assess public health problems in developing countries and evaluate actions designed to improve public health;
* formulate public health strategies and approaches to public health problems appropriate to a given culture and environment;
* apply appropriate research skills for evaluation and use of research findings.
Contents
There is an initial, compulsory, one-week orientation period that includes an introduction to studying at the School, sessions on key computing and study skills and also a two-day residential field trip. After the orientation period, students take a series of compulsory modules and can choose from additional recommended modules.
Compulsory: Epidemiology; Statistics; Health Policy, Process & Power; Health Economics; Principles of Social Research, Introductory lectures on Public Health in Developing Countries (PHDC) and PHDC Student Seminars.
Recommended: Public Health Lecture Series
Terms 2 and 3
Students take six study modules, one from each timetable slot. The mainstream options are given below, followed by other options. Not all modules may be available in any one year. Non-mainstream option modules can be taken only after consultation with the personal tutor or course director.
C1: Mainstream options: Health Care Evaluation; Study Design:- Writing a Study Proposal & Grant Application; Primary Health Care. Other options: Drug, Alcohol, Tobacco Use and Public Health; Vector Sampling, Identification and Incrimination.
C2: Mainstream options: Economic Analysis for Health Policy; Family Planning Programmes; Conflict & Health; Statistical Methods in Epidemiology. Other options: Design and Analysis of Epidemiological Studies; Health Impact and Decision Analysis, Promotion Approaches and Methods; Qualitative Methodologies.
D1: Mainstream options: Medical Anthropology in Public Health; Designing Disease Control Programmes in Developing Countries; Maternal & Child Nutrition. Other options: Communicable Disease in Developed and Middle-income Countries; Economic Evaluation; Environmental Epidemiology; Population, Poverty and Environment; Social Epidemiology; Spatial Epidemiology in Public Health.
D2: Mainstream options: Epidemiology & Control of Communicable Diseases; Ethics, Public Health & Human Rights; Globalisation and Health; International Mental Health. Other options: Organisational Management; Population Dynamics and Projections; Reviewing the Literature; Sexual Health.
E1: Mainstream option: Applying Public Health Principles in Developing Countries. Other options: AIDS; Epidemiology & Control of Non-Communicable Diseases; Methods of Vector Control; Nutrition in Emergencies; Gender and Health; Modelling and Dynamics of Infectious Disease; Proposal development.
E2: Free choice of modules: Advanced Statistical Methods in Epidemiology; Analytical Models for Decision Making; Control of Sexually Transmitted Diseases; Current Issues in Safe Motherhood & Perinatal Health; Epidemiology and Control of Maleria; Health Systems; History and Health; Nutrition Programme Planning; Sociological Approaches to Health; Tropical Environmental Health.
IELTS
You are normally required to take an English Proficiency Test.
Most European Universities recognise the IELTS test.
Take testRequirements
At least a Second-class Honours degree of a recognised university in health sciences, social sciences or natural sciences, or a related subject, or a degree in medicine. Applicants with an appropriate technical qualification and work experience, who can demonstrate equivalent academic ability, will be considered. Successful candidates are expected to have lived in a developing country and worked in activities related to public health for a minimum of two years.
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Additional Requirements
| Minimal degree required: | Bachelor's degree |
| Minimal amount of work experience | Not specified |
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